Sorry, I know it's been awhile and you are waiting to see the final results. Well, I still don't have them! I have spent the last two weeks slowly moving things into the new room. It's been hard and I've had to move things more than once or twice. I would bring something in, go through it, organize, and drop it in a drawer, only to realize I wanted that drawer for something else!
I also realized that I really hated those little open spaces at the end of my cabinets, so YEP, went and bought even more cubes! Once again, the amazing people at Michael's gave me a discount on top of the 40% off.
My husband and I were talking one morning, about the fact that we will have a lot of formica left over, when the lightbulb went off in my head! I asked him what he thought about building me a desk/table to work on, and using the formica to cover the work surface. Well, he jumped at that. We ran to Home Depot where we got fancy shaped legs, and some more plywood, and by the next day I had a table built!
Right now it's upside down on the floor because he is painting the legs white for me, but pictures will be coming soon.
As of now, the room has been at a standstill. We are waiting for help in putting the formica down. I still can't move my paper in because it will just get in their way, also, I have about 10 cubes in my bedroom waiting to be moved into position, and filled.
Still have a long way to go. My daughter is coming in from New Mexico for a visit on June 16, that's two weeks from now, and I am determined to have the room together for her to see!
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Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Googling my Fingers Off
Wow, I am spending more time on the computer, than working on my room. Good thing I have this amazing husband who is painting for me!
I had decided that I wanted the room a nice deep grass green. Then I would decorate with pink and purple. Make it look like a garden. Also, since the room was originally green, the younger daughter's favorite color, I would keep it in a color she liked and add her older sister's favorite color, purple.
I picked out what I thought was a nice deep green. My husband started to paint and the first thing I noticed was that my daughter's room was not really green before!
(color in picture is a little off)
Her paint was custom made to match her wallpaper and bedding, and for years we said she had a green room, but now I was really making it green!
When the first coat dried, it was a little bit startling at first, but I liked it. My husband on the other hand, did not!
Even though he will never step foot in this room, I decided to go a little darker. Off to Home Depot, where the young man there added something to the paint and made it a shade darker. Which takes us to now, with my husband upstairs painting the room a darker shade on the second coat.
Back to Google and what I have been doing for the last two days! RESEARCHING desks, chairs, paper storage and my last important thing, something for my window.
I saved so many pictures of scraprooms I liked and a lot of them had some beautiful desks in them.
While researching I knew I wanted something in white, and something with nice legs. I found these two desks at Pottery Barn Teens.
Loved them both! Unfortunately, at around $400 each for a 4ft x 2ft desk, I couldn't bring myself to ordering one of them. After talking with my husband a light bulb went off in my head. I had asked him if we saved my old kitchen table, I liked the shape of it, and maybe he could just add legs. We didn't save it. That's when I decided to do a search on kitchen tables, and came up with this one that I ordered from Walmart!
It got a lot of rave reviews, and a lot of people actually used it in Craft Rooms.
Next the search was on for the perfect chair. Do you know they do not make many white office chairs? I found one by, Kathy Ireland, again another item at $400.00 I thought it was a little too much, besides the color of the material was all wrong. Then I found these on Pottery Barn Teens.
These chairs are all around $300.00, not sure they look all that comfortable for the amount of time I will be spending in it!
Somehow I landed on Rooms To Go Kids and found these chairs. The first one, I only paid attention to because it was called the Hannah Montana chair, and I am probably the only woman in the world that has a 27 year old daughter who likes Hannah Montana!
This one caught my eye because it was called the Disney Princess Chair. I think I'm a little too old for this one.
Finally, at Rooms To Go Kids, I found this one...
I know I will now need some sort of pad for it, but hopefully I can match up some material to the room and make it at a later date, like when I get a new sewing machine!
Tomorrow on to the paper storage search....
I had decided that I wanted the room a nice deep grass green. Then I would decorate with pink and purple. Make it look like a garden. Also, since the room was originally green, the younger daughter's favorite color, I would keep it in a color she liked and add her older sister's favorite color, purple.
I picked out what I thought was a nice deep green. My husband started to paint and the first thing I noticed was that my daughter's room was not really green before!
(color in picture is a little off)
Her paint was custom made to match her wallpaper and bedding, and for years we said she had a green room, but now I was really making it green!
When the first coat dried, it was a little bit startling at first, but I liked it. My husband on the other hand, did not!
Even though he will never step foot in this room, I decided to go a little darker. Off to Home Depot, where the young man there added something to the paint and made it a shade darker. Which takes us to now, with my husband upstairs painting the room a darker shade on the second coat.
Back to Google and what I have been doing for the last two days! RESEARCHING desks, chairs, paper storage and my last important thing, something for my window.
I saved so many pictures of scraprooms I liked and a lot of them had some beautiful desks in them.
While researching I knew I wanted something in white, and something with nice legs. I found these two desks at Pottery Barn Teens.
Loved them both! Unfortunately, at around $400 each for a 4ft x 2ft desk, I couldn't bring myself to ordering one of them. After talking with my husband a light bulb went off in my head. I had asked him if we saved my old kitchen table, I liked the shape of it, and maybe he could just add legs. We didn't save it. That's when I decided to do a search on kitchen tables, and came up with this one that I ordered from Walmart!
It got a lot of rave reviews, and a lot of people actually used it in Craft Rooms.
Next the search was on for the perfect chair. Do you know they do not make many white office chairs? I found one by, Kathy Ireland, again another item at $400.00 I thought it was a little too much, besides the color of the material was all wrong. Then I found these on Pottery Barn Teens.
These chairs are all around $300.00, not sure they look all that comfortable for the amount of time I will be spending in it!
Somehow I landed on Rooms To Go Kids and found these chairs. The first one, I only paid attention to because it was called the Hannah Montana chair, and I am probably the only woman in the world that has a 27 year old daughter who likes Hannah Montana!
This one caught my eye because it was called the Disney Princess Chair. I think I'm a little too old for this one.
Finally, at Rooms To Go Kids, I found this one...
I know I will now need some sort of pad for it, but hopefully I can match up some material to the room and make it at a later date, like when I get a new sewing machine!
Tomorrow on to the paper storage search....
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